The people you meet...

it only just clicked that the girl who i'm working the closest with each day, before she goes back to drama school in august, might actually have acted in something.. since we only talk about office-related stuff i hadn't thought to make the connection.. and tomorrow she has an audtion with abc for something i never bothered to ask her about... i looked up her name and found some links...

** WARNING **
SOME OF THE BELOW MAY NOT BE SUITABLE VIEWING FOR AN OFFICE ENVIRONMENT

photos:
http://www.splitbrain.com/splog/archives/000018.html
http://www.splitbrain.com/4GALLERY/records/GALRrecord_0033.html

movie:
http://www.accidentaltheatre.com/jol.html
the trailer here is funny in the context that we spend hours just working on how to better organize the company's accounts... you never expect people in your office to do this kind of thing...

Day One

just came back from work.. completely exhausted.. they will have me doing the job of 1) an office administrator, 2) a sales representative and 3) a receptionist.

they expect to have people working under me in the future, as the company grows.. i guess now is the growing pains... genuine people though. this is a real office. first time for me! btw.. it's 9-5.

Bryant Park

Just sat for 5 hours in Bryant Park (http://www.bryantpark.org/the-grounds/images/map_bp.jpg) with about 5000 of my other fellow Americans, drinking wine (actually wine was the alcohol of choice.. New Yorkers and I seem to have at least one thing in common), eating and then watching American Graffiti until midnight. weird we all did that together. kinda like a huge TV room next to 5th avenue and 42nd... i was with a group of about 12 other people.. one guy invited me to play basketball tomorrow so i think i will do that. i don't remember anyone in tokyo (or London for that matter) asking me if i wanted to play basketball the next day.. for shame! w.

p.s. for the duration of the movie there were a lot of low flying aircraft coming into land above us. the quieter parts of the movie made them all the more conspicuous.. they really were flying quite low......

First impressions

just came back from madison square garden. the madonna "re-invention" concert was sold out so i didn't actually go in, but i did eat at a very fine japanese restaurant right outside. if they can cook up a dish like i had for just 5 dollars i might just never cook again... and all within 10 minutes of walk!

some observations so far:

1a) there are a LOT of gay people here.
and
1b) they all have HUGE muscles.
this is the first of many culture shocks resulting from being a long time among the somewhat modesly shaped japanese folk..

2) people here shout a lot. it's not that they're being rude, it's just that they don't seem to know how to speak quietly.. on top of that, they say whatever they like.. most of the time, when i listen to people talking i think they are rehearsing for a movie since most of what they say is actually quite interesting.. and they don't understand sarcasm (much like the Japanese..)
so i will need to shout a lot and not be sarcastic if i'm going to have any chance of fitting in here it seems...

3) garbage men play music loudly from their trucks..

4) people say "dollar" a lot..

Touchdown!

in new york. touch down. living with a filipino.. didn't think to ask and find that out before i came here.. anwyays. i'm writing from my snazzy new 2.8 GhZ pc (this came to 64,000 yen (in your language.. this is one cheapo city!!). we are so in the centre of everything here it's not funny.. this is good.